BusyBox maintainer Erik Andersen sent us this brief announcement of the release of BusyBox version 0.60.2 . . .

I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable series, and I believe it should take care of most everyone's needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when told to do complex things with backticks.

I've personally tested this release out on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at. See the changelog for (most of) the details. The last release was _very_ solid for people,
and this one should be even better. As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded here.

On a slightly different topic . . .

I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing to sell the domain name — for $250. He also owns busybox.org but will not part with it . . . I will then need to pay the registry fee for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't even _know_ how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth will start costing some money.

I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that idea at all (big surprise). It turns out < insert argument where she wins and I don't > she has better ideas about what we should spend our money on that don't involve busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the mailing list and web page. So . . .

I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as individuals — hopefully people and companies that are willing to contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that would be wonderful!

There is now a link on the busybox webpage were you can contribute via paypal to a noble cause.

 
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